[R] increasing memory size

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Faheem Mitha <faheem at email.unc.edu> writes:

> Dear R people,
> 
> I realise I should have specified that I am using R under Linux
> (Unix).
> 
> I tried R_VSIZE=10M in .Renviron as suggested by Uwe Ligges, instead of
> R_VSIZE = 10M and to my surprise it worked! I then tried R_VSIZE = 10M
> again to make sure I wasn't deranged, and it *didn't* work! I don't see
> why spaces should make so much difference. They rarely do in Unix, in my
> experience. It might be reasonable to specifically mention the correct
> form in the documentation. It is hardly self-evident, at least to me (but
> maybe I'm missing something).

It's a (/bin/sh) shell script and shell scripts do not want blanks
around "=" 

x = y # execute program "x" with arguments "=" and "y"
x= y  # execute program "y" with environment var "x" set empty
x=y   # set variable "x" to "y"

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